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THE CORONATION 135
She attained in this mortal life. Christ ascended into
heaven, and the force of love and right reason demanded,
that He should take to heaven with Him his most loving
of Her
Mother, in order that He should not be deprived
there, nor She in this world of his presence and company.
But the most ardent love which both of Them had for
men, dissolved in a manner these bonds of union, in
ducing our kindest Mother to return to the world in or
der to establish the Church ;
and moving the Son to give
his consent to her absence from Him during that time.
But as the Son of God was powerful enough to recom
pense Her for this privation to a certain extent,
it be
came for Him an obligation of his love to make such a
recompense. And the fulfillment of this obligation would
not have been so publicly acknowledged or made so
He denied his blessed Mother the favor of
manifest, if
accompanying Her upon earth, while He remained seated
at the glory of the right hand of his Father. Besides, the
most ardent love of the blessed Mother, having been
accustomed and nourished in the presence of the Lord
her Son, would have inflicted upon Her insufferable vio
lence, if for so many years She was to be deprived of
that kind of presence of Him, which was possible during
her stay in the Church.
121. For all this the Lord our Savior provided by con
tinuing his sacramental presence in the heart of the most
fortunate Mother as long as She lived in the Church after
his taking
his seat in heaven. To a certain extent He abun
dantly recompensed Her by this sacramental presence
for that which She had enjoyed, when He had yet lived
with Her in this world ;
for in those times He often ab
sented Himself in order to attend to the work of our
salvation and thus afflicted her heart with anxieties and
fears, roused by the works in which He had to engage;
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